> I think that's mostly due to limits in payment-systems, laws, and inefficiencies of small transactions. Indirect payment from another group via ads is the wor

> I think that's mostly due to limits in payment-systems, laws, and inefficiencies of small transactions. Indirect payment from another group via ads is the workaround. > In the late-90's there was a lot of interest around a vision of "micropayments", where a user can easily spend a cent to unlock any news article of their choice, but for various reasons that didn't work. Yeah but something has to happen. It's just idiocy to think that users will subscribe to every publication they visit a handful of times per month. There must be some way to make this happen. > 'm confident some people must have already tried to create things like a "One Subscription Alliance" and failed, probably because of a whole bunch of cooperation problems between the different would-be member outlets. In other words an industry-created problem